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| 1.Around The World In 80 Gardens by: Monty Don, Montagu Don January 25, 2008 |
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| I have just borrowed this from the library. I found it an interesting and easy-to-read book and the short 'chapters' on each garden are great for busy gardeners on a tea break, as it stops you reading too much at once! However, I found the lack of photos disappointing, especially as Don would sometimes explain at length how a particular planting scheme or garden area was so effective...but the only photo would be of something else! And like many other 'celebrity' books, an irritatingly large number of views were obscured by Monty in the foreground! I haven't seen the accompanying tv series, so it might perhaps be a more satisfying read if you have seen the gardens on screen. It's well worth reading, and I might possibly buy it in the future, ... Read More |
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| 2.The Complete Gardener by: Montagu Don, Monty Don March 03, 2005 |
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| I like this book. It looks good, it's interesting to read and seems to have all the "buy me" boxes ticked, but I wonder how much of it could really apply to the average back garden or allotment. I say this because Don uses his own garden as his example - his garden being a vast swathe of English countryside divided into various areas that themselves are larger than most people's gardens. With quotes such as, "the houses in my area are mainly built of oak" (page 14), and page after page of photographs showing Don in one of his many extensive gardens, he makes no effort to identify with his potential readers.
To expand on this a little, Don's Lime Walk (a leafy avenue of lime trees) is so large that he uses a gantry on a trailer to tend ... Read More |
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| 3.The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption by: Monty Don, Sarah Don August 15, 2005 |
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| I was very sorry to hear of Monty Don's recent stroke and it was reading a newspaper article which gave some brief history of his life that led me to buy this book.
This book is essentially divided into two parts or themes. One is the story of how Monty and Sarah Don met and built a life together, which included building up a successful business - and how that business went wrong and it's impact on their lives, and the second theme is their love of gardening and the garden they built in their home. The book will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Monty Don as a person, and it will also appeal to those who have an interest in gardening. I would not describe it as an instructional gardening book, but more about a personal ... Read More |
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| 4.My Roots: A Decade in the Garden by: Montagu Don, Monty Don June 05, 2006 |
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| I am the world's worst gardener. I normally visit public gardens and end up feeling very depressed. Ditto watching gardening programmes. But I loved this book. It is so ... normal. There are no airs and graces, just a man and his wife making something from nothing and the various trials and tribulations along the way.
Intelligent, sensitive, funny, poignant - it is a book to dip into or read all in one go. I liked to take pot luck and open it at a random point to let the writing take me to a garden's season out of season as it were. Photographs would have improved the book which is why I gave it four stars. |
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| 5.Growing Out of Trouble by: Montagu Don, Monty Don November 02, 2006 |
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| I work with young people, i love growing vegatables and i enjoy reading so i was as happy as a pig in you know what with this book. I really loved the way he was very honest about his own struggles and about the challenges of working with heroin addicts. This is no fairy tale, everything didn't go as perfectly as he first thought it might. This was about real life heroes working with real people with real stories and the results were remarkable. |
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| 6.My Roots: A Decade in the Garden by: Montagu Don, Monty Don November 07, 2005 |
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| I am the world's worst gardener. I normally visit public gardens and end up feeling very depressed. Ditto watching gardening programmes. But I loved this book. It is so ... normal. There are no airs and graces, just a man and his wife making something from nothing and the various trials and tribulations along the way.
Intelligent, sensitive, funny, poignant - it is a book to dip into or read all in one go. I liked to take pot luck and open it at a random point to let the writing take me to a garden's season out of season as it were. Photographs would have improved the book which is why I gave it four stars. |
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| 7.The Complete Gardener by: Montagu Don, Monty Don March 12, 2003 |
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| I like this book. It looks good, it's interesting to read and seems to have all the "buy me" boxes ticked, but I wonder how much of it could really apply to the average back garden or allotment. I say this because Don uses his own garden as his example - his garden being a vast swathe of English countryside divided into various areas that themselves are larger than most people's gardens. With quotes such as, "the houses in my area are mainly built of oak" (page 14), and page after page of photographs showing Don in one of his many extensive gardens, he makes no effort to identify with his potential readers.
To expand on this a little, Don's Lime Walk (a leafy avenue of lime trees) is so large that he uses a gantry on a trailer to tend the trees (see ... Read More |
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| 8.Gardening Mad by: Monty Don 1998-05 |
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| This was the first of Monty Don's books that I have read. Is is assembled from his previous articles in the Observer magazine, and on the strength of this, I became a regular subsrciber to that newspaper. The main strength of the book is that it not only imparts useful information horticulturally, but also tells you just what is happening in the Don garden. So you can feel a part of the developments there, warts and all. There are also beautiful photos, and although their subjects are flowers and plants, not the garden, and some are almost abstract, they are consistent with the feeling engendered by the text of the book. It is almost like reading a garden diary. Delightful. |
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| 9.The Weekend Gardener by: Montagu Don, Monty Don September 28, 1995 |
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| I HAVE OVER FORTY BOOKS ON GARDENING BUT THIS IS THE BEST EVER. SIMPLE YET WRITTEN WITH A TRUE SOUL FOR GARDENING AND A FEEL THAT OTHER TV GARDENERS LACK |
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| 10.Jewel Garden by: Monty Don September 28, 1995 |
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| I was very sorry to hear of Monty Don's recent stroke and it was reading a newspaper article which gave some brief history of his life that led me to buy this book.
This book is essentially divided into two parts or themes. One is the story of how Monty and Sarah Don met and built a life together, which included building up a successful business - and how that business went wrong and it's impact on their lives, and the second theme is their love of gardening and the garden they built in their home. The book will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Monty Don as a person, and it will also appeal to those who have an interest in gardening. I would not describe it as an instructional gardening book, but more about a personal journey that ... Read More |
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